Sorting tag pill list

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#1

I would like to sort the list of tiddlers that display when I click on a tag pill. Is there a way to do that? Specifically I’m looking to sort them by create date. I know how to do this when making my own like of tiddlers, but I don’t know what to change to cause the ‘tag pill list’ to sort that way.

My guess is that it is part of the ViewTemplate. I see a $:/config/ViewTemplateTagsFilters/default but it doesn’t appear to have any sort of filter expression in it.

#2

The simplest way to change the sort order of the displayed tags is to edit the $:/core/ui/TagTemplate shadow tiddler, and change this line:

<$macrocall $name="list-tagged-draggable" tag=<<currentTiddler>>/>

to

<$macrocall $name="list-tagged-draggable" tag=<<currentTiddler>> subFilter="sort[created]"/>

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#3

Keep in mind the tag pill is designed to be a draggable list, so you can manually change the order. But it also honors list-before and list-after fields, Be carful on system tags like $:/tags/ViewTemplate

  • You could add a list to the tag pill drop down with a $:/tags/TagDropdown tag, on a tiddler that lists the items so tagged with a sort order. You will then have two lists (one sorted and not draggable)

I have a “filter pill plugin” soon to be published that you could use instead.

Note:
I think we should make it possible to edit the tag tiddler and specify the subfilter in a field, and have the core changed to check for the subfilter. It would make sense to map to Marios improved TOC (looking for link)

#4

This works, thank you.

#5

Manually sorting the list is good for one-off stuff, but because my wiki is more of a work diary, I want the entries to automatically sort based on date.

I will keep an eye out for your “filter pill plugin” though. That sounds interesting.